... g a number of supplements in my diet that were supposed to help with collagen growth due to me having laser surgery on some minor acne scarring and I believe the skin on my lips changed due to this and grew back too quickly as if my immune system went into overdrive. ... (4 replies)

... t lips. But i was so ignorant and i liked to play a lot. everytime my lips got chapped from normal winter chapping, i would stretch my lips out on purpose so the skin lifts and i could play around with it. ... (198 replies)

... My lips have been discolored for about 4 years now. I think the discoloration is a side effect from frequently peeling the chapped skin off when I was in junior high. I ignored this the first year, but it has had a HUGE negative affect on my social life. ... (0 replies)

... ast three fold, and make it a DAILY routine that has NEVER stopped since... God knows when... and I'm 17. It's become a freakin' religious ritual for me to apply lip balm, go to bed, wake up, wash it off, peel off dead skin, RINSE AND REPEAT. Sometimes, it doesn't work and you have to go out with your lips looking horrible. ... (1 replies)

... I feel your pain i have perioral dermatitis around my upper lip although its mostly gone now another problem has arised .Now my lower lip peels and and the dead skin turns yellow im really trying to avoid picking at it, you should do the same dont pick at it let the natural healing take place. ... (2 replies)

... ame thing. It started after I went to the beach one day and got really burnt and my lips got cold sores on them. I had a really bad one in the middle of my top lip that was really swollen. ... (2 replies)

... This condition can be healed but it takes time. more important than any treatment is to first relax the lip and your intire body this condition is associated with stress, anxiety ocd, and other emotional disturbances. ... (198 replies)

... I find I have to apply the cocoa butter more often than shea butter, but it "flattens" the skin more and doesn't encourage peeling at all. It makes my lips feel wet without feeling slimy and has a nice glossy look. ... (198 replies)

... d news about my improvement, I am no longer feeling obsessed about my lips and now feel optimistic about their eventually healing. Just as I've accepted that the skin problem on my thumb, whatever the cause, is going to come and go and isn't a big deal, I recognize the lip thing will probably be the same way. ... (198 replies)

... biting and they have healed fine. Also one woman in a forum bit her lip for 40 years it healed fine! Lip lickers chronic to unchronic usually develop regular cheilitis but like us lip pickers a few developed this condition. ... (198 replies)